Write a book and claim that the answers came to you from on high. Then claim that everyone else’s book is wrong and if they don’t convert to your book, they should be wiped from the face of the earth.
It seems most religions contain within their tenets the goal of teaching and thereby converting others to their beliefs. But, in many of them, obliteration of whole races and cultures seems to be their first choice instead of teaching.
Since one cannot convert the dead, how does killing increase the ranks of the truly faithful? Over the millennia, many fanatics believed that fear of a similar fate would bring adherents to their creed. but that proved to be an incentive that rarely endured.
Thus history repeats itself with depressing consistency.
Too many ignorant comments made by the anti-religion faction. They tend to confuse the what some people do “in the name of religion” vs what that religion actually teaches. They should read and understand what a religion professes rather that regurgitating hearsay from others, including the MSM. Just because a person (or a political leader) claims to “belong to a particular religion” does not mean their religion requires them to commit crimes against humanity. I would not call the actions of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao as being one of religious intent (unless you want to call their form of Socialism a religious belief – and, yes, Fascism is just another form of Socialism – see my other comment to TomBob).
wiatr over 6 years ago
Make it up as you go along.
Farside99 over 6 years ago
Write a book and claim that the answers came to you from on high. Then claim that everyone else’s book is wrong and if they don’t convert to your book, they should be wiped from the face of the earth.
danketaz Premium Member over 6 years ago
Forget that and start working on wrinkle cream.
BigDaveGlass over 6 years ago
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ptnjbrown over 6 years ago
Panel 4, he just got smarter.
sandpiper over 6 years ago
It seems most religions contain within their tenets the goal of teaching and thereby converting others to their beliefs. But, in many of them, obliteration of whole races and cultures seems to be their first choice instead of teaching.
Since one cannot convert the dead, how does killing increase the ranks of the truly faithful? Over the millennia, many fanatics believed that fear of a similar fate would bring adherents to their creed. but that proved to be an incentive that rarely endured.
Thus history repeats itself with depressing consistency.
paullp Premium Member over 6 years ago
Mankind at a fork in the road — will he invent religion or science?
Teto85 Premium Member over 6 years ago
Welp, Carlin had it right.
RabbitHole over 6 years ago
Too many ignorant comments made by the anti-religion faction. They tend to confuse the what some people do “in the name of religion” vs what that religion actually teaches. They should read and understand what a religion professes rather that regurgitating hearsay from others, including the MSM. Just because a person (or a political leader) claims to “belong to a particular religion” does not mean their religion requires them to commit crimes against humanity. I would not call the actions of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao as being one of religious intent (unless you want to call their form of Socialism a religious belief – and, yes, Fascism is just another form of Socialism – see my other comment to TomBob).